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Reviews, essays, best sellers and children's books coverage from The New York Times Book Review.
9 cze 2022 · This week we bring you a beach bag’s worth of recommended titles, from Ada Limón’s smart new poetry collection to Candice Millard’s riveting true adventure tale about the 19th-century search for...
15 lis 2021 · Her latest novel, “The Island of Missing Trees,” takes us to Cyprus, a land of “golden beaches, turquoise waters, lucid skies” and frightful conflict. In 1974, two teenagers — a Greek ...
2 gru 2021 · The Island of Missing Trees. by Elif Shafak. reviewed by Sezen Ünlüönen. Turkish-British author Elif Shafak’s new novel, The Island of Missing Trees, revisits some of her favorite themes: nonlinear history, the redemptive power of stories, and immigrants and outsiders.
6 gru 2021 · The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak (Bloomsbury). The focal point of this novel set in Cyprus is a sentient fig tree, capable not only of “volition, altruism and kinship” but also of ...
9 wrz 2021 · 12 New Books We Recommend This Week. War and its aftermath figure prominently in our recommended titles this week, from Andrew Bacevich’s critique of American foreign policy (“After the ...
2 lis 2021 · THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES. Ambitious, thought-provoking, and poignant. Following the travails of one fictional family from late-20th-century Cyprus to present-day London, Shafak explores the physical, psychological, and moral cost of the long conflict between Turkish and Greek Cypriots on the island’s citizens and their environment.
